Samstag, 1. Oktober 2011


On Monday, September 26 we visited the office of Congressman Tim Scott. Mr. Scott is a Republican, who had been elected to Congress in November 2010. He is the first Republican African-American Representative from the South since Reconstruction, besides A.West of Florida. Unfortunately he himself wasn’t there, but we had the chance to talk to his chief of office Kathy Crawford. She informed us about his strong conservative; fiscal, pro- business policy, his effort to promote cutting on government spending especially in the branch of social programs like medical care and funding of NGO’s and at the same time lowering the tax rate. We discussed with Mrs. Crawford the emphasize on moral issues like belief and marriage in respective of his opposition to gay-marriage. Unfortunately Mrs. Crawford was not in the position to answer all our questions. But it clearly gave a very different approach to what we have heard and seen about Afro- Americans in the US-South so far. Statements like the Afro-Americans have to overcome obstacles themselves in order to not be marginalized leaved our group with resentments. Tim Scott is very unique in the sense of, that most Afro-American politicians are part of the Democratic Party. For me personally it seemed like the issue of race and race- marginalization is intended to be avoided by emphasizing economical issues to install the idea that it is up to the black population themselves to change situations of inequality, even when many of these situations were and still are created by other parts of the society, the part of society that actually has power and strong political representation. So after the interview we leaved unsatisfied and still with a lot of question marks in our heads. 

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